Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] the right " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I intervened in the right hon. Gentleman 's speech he replied in such confusion that I thought it best to give him time to reflect , and to ask my question again later . |
| 2 | I listened to the right hon. Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) and it was plain that he did not understand the Bill . |
| 3 | If I may hark back to the answer that I gave to the right hon. Member for Morley and Leeds , South ( Mr. Rees ) , one of the areas on which there has been a significant concentration by the Government and the security forces in recent years is the financial resources available to terrorists — I hasten to say on both sides of the community . |
| 4 | ‘ I left at the right time as I felt the band had run out of ideas and it was becoming motivated by the wrong things . |
| 5 | I groped for the right word and found it' … |
| 6 | for a time , the only way I could communicate was to spell out words letter by letter by raising my eyebrows when someone pointed to the right letter on a spelling card . |
| 7 | He looked a dangerous striker and got in a good header which I think you got to the right and got your hand to ? |
| 8 | I ca n't remember exactly who lived on the right hand side , I 've forgotten but th I know the Chief Clerk lived just a little way down , you see , er |
| 9 | This was an important loss of potential moderate middle class support , who moved to the right wing in opposition to the republic . |
| 10 | ‘ You came at the right time to save me and Hawkins . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You want gracious elegance , you came to the right place . ’ |
| 12 | I did n't realise , by the way , that Kathleen was a ‘ rebel ’ , but if so , — apart from Winnie perhaps — she came to the right house ( or House ) . |
| 13 | Chub do have their days when the old grey matter works overtime and you will have to put on your own thinking cap and go through a whole array of angling techniques , usual and offbeat ones , before you hit on the right one to catch him . |
| 14 | You sure you got the right , you sure you sent off the right husband this morning ? |
| 15 | Are you sure you sent off the right husband ? |
| 16 | My dear friend — if I may so describe him — the previous Foreign Secretary , who resigned from the right hon. Lady 's Government over Europe , was equally thrilled , although he did not express himself — he never does — in quite such colourful language . |
| 17 | If you play back a recording of the rehearsal , consider whether you spoke at the right pace , and particularly whether you made an impressive pause at the right moment . |
| 18 | Mungo admired Emily 's patience as she waited for the right moment to mention his proposition . |
| 19 | Carefully she waited until the right moment . |
| 20 | With — ’ she searched for the right word . |
| 21 | Among left handed writers defects of verbal comprehension were more frequent than among those who wrote with the right hand . |
| 22 | She groped for the right word . |
| 23 | Such thinking was behind the absurd argument that the police should be restrained from giving hot pursuit to stolen cars , and it also lay behind much of the nit-picking objection to the Bill that we heard from the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook . |
| 24 | ‘ Would my Right Honourable Friend accept how much I regret , ’ Mr Tebbit had begun his snarl at the Foreign Secretary , ‘ having to say how much I disagree with nearly everything he said and agree with nearly everything said by the Right Honourable Gentleman for the Opposition . ’ |
| 25 | There was little room for lesbians to be out in the first half of this century , unless of course they moved in the right literary or aristocratic circles . |
| 26 | They came from the right hon. Member for Brent , North ( Sir R. Boyson ) ; from the hon. Member for Hendon , South ( Mr. Marshall ) ; from the hon. Member for Lancaster ( Dame E. |
| 27 | Yeah , but of course they went to the right |
| 28 | Most of the children … had a verbal knowledge of how to select a book and how to find what they wanted in the right book once they had located it . |
| 29 | He sought for the right word . |
| 30 | He sought for the right phrase . |